We’re barely getting over the September 12 Democratic primary and already we’re hearing whispers of the 2010 election. Jonathan Rees, the Ward 3 candidate known for his, let’s say, “creative” use of online resources to run his campaign, may be smarting from his trouncing on Tuesday (he mustered 29 votes for the council seat, or 0.21 percent of the total votes cast), but he’s not out. Not at all.

In a posting on a DCPages.com messageboard, Rees yesterday announced his intention to challenge incoming Ward 3 council-member Mary Cheh in 2010. He wrote:

I want the residents of Ward 3 to have a Council Member who represents them which Mary Cheh has already shown she will not do by whom she aligned herself with.

I am “that” person who will do for you what Mary Cheh will fail to do as I will not do what Mary Cheh has; namely, I will not stab the businesses and voters in the back and cave in to special interest groups as she did late in her 2006, campaign.

When I ran in the 2006, primary, I did so more as a test run by only spending $500.00, use of the internet and friends but for the 2010 primary, I will be heavily financed, heavily backed on the streets of ward 3 and build alliances of people who did not vote for Mary Cheh.

If you are one of the 24,000 Democrats in ward 3 who did not vote for or want to see Mary Cheh as our next Council Member and think we can do better, then contact me now so together we can build a strong opposition to her and in 2010 make her a one term council member.

Let’s see. Rees spent 15 months campaigning this time around, and got 29 votes. Should he start now and spend the next four years pounding the pavement, our sources tell us he may move beyond the 100-vote mark. Then again, the more Rees campaigns, the stranger his campaign gets. He’s managed to spam voters into submission, argue that banning gay marriage makes good business sense, create blogs to attack opponents, and make the Post go batty. Come 2010, he may be the only one voting for himself.

What could we expect over the four years? We dare to say we’re curious to find out.